What is the difference between fashion illustration and clothing design?

When we casually open a fashion magazine, we are presented with one beautiful photograph after another. But a hundred years ago, fashion magazines presented us with the fashion style of the time in the form of illustrations from the cover to the inside pages.

Vogue did not have its first full-color photographic cover until 1932. That is to say, before that, the pictures in fashion magazines were drawn by illustrators with brushes.

Therefore, fashion illustrations often draw some clothes that have been designed.

Fashion illustrators have their own creative styles. Different illustrators will depict the same piece of clothing differently.

Today, as photography technology becomes increasingly advanced, we rarely have the opportunity to see fashion illustrations.

This year’s May issue of domestic Vogue had a topic on “Fashion Illustration”, and the fashion illustrator Jacky Marshall was interviewed. In the 1990s, Jacky worked as a designer for brands such as CK and DKNY. Later, he resolutely turned to illustration and became a leader in fashion illustration in the social media era.

Fashion illustration is an art form. Although it is no longer mainstream in the fashion field, due to the development of the Internet and the rise of social platforms, fashion illustrators have more opportunities to display their works. And the possibility of being seen by more people.

Today, fashion illustrations are no longer published in magazines to explain fashion styles to people, so they can be more casual and free-spirited when creating.

If you love fashion and painting, then combining the two to create is a good choice. Be a freelance fashion illustrator and publish your works on social platforms. on, I believe your talent will be recognized.

Fashion design is more complex than fashion illustration, and it is also related to painting.

When fashion designers design clothes, they will first use a paintbrush to express their ideas on paper, which is a design sketch.

Design sketches serve the subsequent design process. They do not need to be as sophisticated and standardized as fashion illustrations. They can even be somewhat abstract. The focus is to show the key points of the design.

Of course there are also some beautifully drawn sketches.

After the design sketch is completed, there is a series of complex processes such as cutting, pattern making, and sample making, etc. During this process, discussions with various relevant departments are also required. After repeated modifications to achieve the desired effect, it can be put into garment production.

The basis for carrying out the above work is to master a large amount of professional knowledge. It is difficult for laymen to imagine the complexity of the designer's work.

Fashion design is the designer's design of clothes. He uses colors to draw his design ideas on paper, that is, fashion renderings, which are a kind of effect display and anticipation before making ready-made clothes.

Fashion illustrations are developed on the basis of fashion renderings. Most of the earliest illustrations appeared in fashion look books. Compared with photography, which can express any fantasy in color and black and white, fashion illustration is more like a kind of art that hovers in the gap between fashion design and non-fashion design. Another impromptu way of depicting popular fashion, as the famous French illustrator Jean Philippe Delhomme said: Fashion illustration is more like an art close to "street poetry".